From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 13 08:40:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 163864DC for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x230.google.com (mail-lb0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F4AB1932 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f176.google.com with SMTP id w7so7862429lbi.21 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=lhh2EB4RAVQCGuP3o7dBqPXXmdn4mRze8aKPihbeWa4=; b=XpkxMbKOcenpmx7GG5IMhaSKjxeNgBEYUmUF8RRN/71OXR7FJqdqFn9TIxN9VrJrl9 nG8RQc6oWp4EP7oy/H6noBMb+r6bLu6/euZS/8RxOY8BtayXoO/VCX2sATzMo1Ky5q2z nhCr2bII/uZ9XhHlCABNObd1ZIrDY3Ga9fpnhD0T7FMDEDCILHuANpy2rygPmur+KI+3 5cRcbSpkRMdsibq0htvX5rzATSGsx25Q+DBVyuAIzf/IcVr4CLSgNlHEAhHmbtOP54lA deeYXHxykNICz0XEeFkEMWaY4q8uYDSZpalWcxztxDyUWWxPckRI7C9pof8lrWtNnfHU oQuw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.132.102 with SMTP id ot6mr150543lbb.27.1392280847281; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.5.193 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:10:47 +0330 Message-ID: Subject: Fwd: how to mount r/w encrypted partition when it is mount ad read-only? From: s m To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:40:50 -0000 hello all i have an encrypted user partition which is encrypted with geli. user is mounted read-only. i want to mount it r/w for a short time, copy some files on it and mount it read-only again. with unencrypted partitions, we can change mount options. for example if an unencrypted user partition is read-only mounted, we can mount it r/w by "mount -rw /usr" command. but for encrypted partitions this command doesn't work and error "device busy" occurs. is there any way to mount r/w encrypted partition when it is mounted as read-only? thanks in advance, sam